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He would be interviewing for a promotion this time. Arizona wanted him to be a LB coach, a position he already holds in Pittsburgh. If he's a candidate for a coordinator job, the Steelers couldn't prevent him from taking it.

dale,have you heard anything positive about kugler? was he fired by the bills just because they're getting a new head coach?

firing zierlein is understandable if they already had a couple names to replace him and an idea of what they want to accomplish with the new coach. if they fired him without any forethought as to who would replace him then that is just poor.

Levitre was not what they thought he would be, Eric Wood was good and got injured halfway through the season. Demetrius Bell was very good in 2008 when he they allowed 2 sacks. Got injured on 2009 though

I mean common, richie incognito and Kendall simmons?? That's less thatn what Zierlin had to work with

I'll give this guy a chance. Steelers must have hired him for a reason

When we criticize Lerlein and our oline this past season the sacks are not what we should look at. The pass pro was not THAT bad this past season. Besides a few games it was actually pretty decent. It was just this year Ben held onto the ball beyond all reason. A qb that got rid of the ball might have been sack 25 times or less behind this oline. If you want to fault Zerlien for something fault him for the run blocking, but eventhat is more due to draft/Arians terrible playcalling. I swear he sabotages the run so he can call more passing plays.

arians got fired in cleveland because his philosophy and play calling stunk. and it hasn't gotten any better here.

he has no regard for the symbiotic relationship between pass/run/defense. his philosophy is detrimental to the success of a team in exchange for perceived success of the offense. i consider that selfish and egotistical and it has no place on any team, let alone the steelers.

often times fans gravitate towards players' egos as causing locker room problems. well, coachs' egos should not be immune to that discussion. i don't know the guy, i don't wish him any ill-will, but i do hope the steelers get rid of him as soon as possible.

Here's what Boise State head coach Chris Petersen told Tim Graham of ESPN.com about Kugler.

``There's absolutely no question that he's the best football coach I've ever been around, He's unbelievable, and I think the work that he's doing right now (in Buffalo) speaks louder than anything else he's ever done.''

With all the criticism of the defense that has been posted here, isn't it interesting that the most coaches being poached by other teams, for promotions no less, are on the defense? No one seems too interested in offering any of our offensive coaches, including the ones who were fired, jobs.

I believe they were able to prevent Butler from interviewing for D. Coordinator with Arizona because they had already taken one or two other coaches with them. There is a clause that let's you prevent your entire coaching staff from being raided by one team. This is just from my memory, so I could be wrong though.

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I'm probably a little too young to remember clearly, but what is the big deal about April? I don't remember our special teams being that impressive under him. I only remember the onside kick he suggested in Superbowl XXX and not liking Cowher yelling at him all the time.